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The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex (corruption)
“We don’t,” Kahn looked around, surprised. “No one wants to know a high profile cephaloid of any kind has died on Earth. So they didn’t. The video of the fall no longer exists in any system.”
“But they can track the body—”
“—already fired off via an old school rocket aimed at our sun. That leaves no evidence here. Nothing happened on Earth. Nothing happened to you.”
“Very big, alien destroyers,” David Kahn said, in a level, but clearly terrified voice. “We at the Greater New York Bureau of Tourism highly recommend you do whatever the being or beings currently in contact with you are asking, while also, uh, acknowledging that we have no idea where the missing being they are referring to is. Please hold for the President—”
I took both of these quotes from the story to potentially analyze the government in this world. It struck me that besides all the sci-fi elements, the one thing that remained human was the drive to hide problems and shift blame.
Humans are flawed creatures. We do things that are illogical and wrong. Some of us have mental problems. Some of us don’t understand how to communicate properly. It is a running stereotype that the government is a body of these people that get drunk on power, and because of basic human nature to make poor decisions, corruption occurs.
The actions in the story about the bureau trying to cover its tracks and sweep an alien death under the rug because of the flaws of the world (or, rather, no safety locks on a cab door) feel uniquely human and realistic. It feels like a parallel to a real life situation, where something happens that get people upset, and the government tries to focus on something else to avoid addressing the real issue.
We could take shootings for example. People with mental issues bringing guns into schools and other public places to kill others. This has happened over the years, and each time outrage from society follows. Protests of stricter gun laws. The news covers these events and argue what these gun laws could do to help.
Nothing happens. We don’t have an alien threatening us with a planet destroying weapon to get things to change. We don’t have a Tavi to tell the truth. We don’t have contact with other worldly alien races to change the whole of society and its economy. All we have are politicians set on being elected again. And both sides are equal in gridlock, and nothing changes.
There were more shadows descending down out of space. Larger and larger vessels moving through the atmosphere far above.
The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex by Tobias S. Buckell
The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex
I loved this story. I think it was one of my favorites in this semester.
It is the first story to start off the Solarpunk and Sci-Fi modules, but I realized as I was reading that it felt like a bridge between the Afrofuturism and Solarpunk genres.
The main protagonist Tavi is never explicitly described as being black, but I got the same vibe from the stories in the Afrofuturism genre. Due to his job being a cab driver and the run down place he lives in, it reminded me of a lower class individual that is treated poorly and unfairly.
The amount of sci-fi elements in this story creates a whole mural of imagery. The flying cab cars, the crashed space station, the different aliens.
All of it led to this futuristic crowded city with hovering highways and glowing lights. though not much of it is mentioned in this story, my mind went to the state of the environment in this story. The oceans are mentioned by the octopus alien near the end, but other than that there is no mention of Earth animals or plants. I am led to wonder if this futuristic world is actually a paradise, or if the advancement of technology destroyed Earth’s natural lands. The talk about oxygen made it sound sparse and unnatural, as if plants no longer existed and all the gases in the atmosphere were being pumped and created from some factory. I couldn’t help but imagine a very industrial world.
Mi nombre es Enith Giselle, soy Ingeniero de Sistemas, con experiencia en temas de Ingeniería, Gestión de TIC, análisis de requerimientos de funcionales, implementación y supervisión proyectos y Teleinformática. Realmente con muchas ansias de seguir aprendiendo, buscando nuevas tecnologías y estar al día con las tendencias y los avances tecnológicos. Uno de mis pasatiempos preferidos es viajar y apreciar los paisajes de nuestro Perú.
Estudio: Argentina se ubica en el lugar Nº64 del Índice de Competitividad por el Talento Global (GTIC)
Estudio: Argentina se ubica en el lugar Nº64 del Índice de Competitividad por el Talento Global (GTIC)
Suiza lo lidera y Chile es el país mejor posicionado de la región. Entre los 25 primeros hay 16 países europeos y Singapur, EEUU y Australia aparecen entre los “no europeos” del Top Ten. Buenos Aires, 16 de enero de 2017 –El cambio tecnológico ha afectado la competitividad del talento y la naturaleza del trabajo, por lo que los países están desempeñando estrategias cada vez más innovadoras…
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LA VIQUIPÈDIA
Una eina molt utilitzada, no? però realment sabeu que esteu utilitzant i com s’ha de fer us d’aquesta?
La Viquipèdia és una enciclopèdia lliure mantinguda per la Fundació Wikimedia, una organització sense ànim de lucre.
Els 5 pilars de la wiquipedia defineixen el caràter de la enciclopèdia:
1. La Wikipedia és una enciclopèdia que incorpora elements de les enciclopedias generals, de les especialitzades i dels almanacs.
2. La Wiquipedia busca el “punt de vista neutral i objectiu”, és a dir, intenta aconseguir que els articles no advoquin per un punt de vista en concret.
3. La Wiquipedia és de contingut lliure, de manera que tot el text està disponible sota la Llicencia Creative Commons.
4. La Wiquipedia segueix unes normes d'etiqueta.
5. La Wiquipedia no té normes fermes més allà dels cinc principis generals enunciats aqui.
- Qui crea la Wiquipedia, qui són els wiquipedistes?
Tothom crea la wiquipedia. Viquipedistes són persones que escriuen, editen o tradueixen articles de Wiquipedia. Són part de la comunitat Viquipèdia.
- Una possible utilització de la Viquipedia:
Triar un article de la Viquipèdia per editar-lo.Cerca fonts d’informació fiables per aixií seguidamen afegir-la al article triat i per finalitzar guardar les modificacions.
La meva modificació feta a: https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballet
Les Webquest
Una Webquest és una proposta didàctica de recerca guiada, que utilitza principalment recursos d’Internet. Té en compte el desenvolupament de les competències bàsiques, contempla el treball cooperatiu i la responsabilitat individual, prioritza la construcció del coneixement mitjançant la transformació de la informació en la creació d0un producte i conté una avaluació directa del procés i dels resultats.
Principalment es basen en el constructivisme, és a dir, en que els alumnes construeixin el seu propi coneixement a partir dels coneixements propis previs.
I per últim, també puc dir que es considerada una didàctica que planteja als alumnes una feina o resolució d’un problema interessant i motivador, i un procés de treball col·laboratiu basat principalment en recursos existents a Internet. Una activitat de recerca guiada en la xarxa.